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Public Release: 2-May-2013
GOES-R EXIS instrument ready for integration
The first of six instruments that will fly on GOES-R, NOAA's next-generation of geostationary operational environmental satellites, has been completed on schedule, seven months before its scheduled installation onto the spacecraft.

NASA, NOAA

Public Release: 2-May-2013
New ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters to rapidly publish urgent research
ACS Publications is pleased to announce the launch of Environmental Science & Technology Letters. The new journal will accelerate the pace of research across the environmental field by providing the global multidisciplinary research community with a leading publishing outlet to highlight urgent critical findings in a letters format. ES&T Letters, available exclusively online, will release its first issue January 2014 and open for submissions in summer 2013.

Public Release: 2-May-2013
Rice's OpenStax College doubles down on free, online textbooks
Rice University-based publisher OpenStax College today announced plans to more than double the number of titles in its catalog of free, high-quality textbooks by 2015, thanks to a grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. More than 150 colleges, universities and high schools have adopted one of OpenStax's first five textbooks since 2012. LJAF's grant will allow OpenStax to add textbooks for precalculus, chemistry, economics, US history, psychology and statistics.

Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Public Release: 2-May-2013
Springer launches new book series Trends in Augmentation of Human Performance
Springer, a leading global scientific publisher, is launching a new book series entitled Trends in Augmentation of Human Performance. The series will focus on the enhancement of human skills, attributes and competencies through the use of technology, medicine and therapy. Approximately three books per year are planned.

Public Release: 2-May-2013
Benchtop NMR breakthrough
Scientists from the Institute of Food Research have been test-driving a prototype instrument that promises to revolutionize access to NMR. The instrument was developed by Oxford Instruments, who breathed new life into existing technology using innovative designs and advanced electronics, producing an NMR spectrometer called Pulsar.

Technology Strategy Board

Public Release: 2-May-2013
IAU and UNESCO sign new agreement
The International Astronomical Union and UNESCO have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding at UNESCO's Headquarters. The agreement has been concluded in the framework of the thematic initiative Astronomy and World Heritage, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The purpose of the initiative is to reinforce the links between science and culture by highlighting the importance of heritage linked to astronomy.

Public Release: 2-May-2013

International Meeting for Autism Research
Autism Speaks and the Simons Foundation announce new brain tissue network
Autism Speaks and the Simons Foundation announced the establishment and funding of Autism BrainNet, a new multi-site network of sites to collect brain tissue advancing autism research through brain donation, based on more than a decade of contributions to the tissue-based research community made by Autism Speaks Autism Tissue Program and other brain banks. Autism BrainNet will acquire, process, store, and distribute brain tissue resources to accelerate understanding of the biological basis of autism.

Autism Speaks, Simons Foundation

Public Release: 1-May-2013
NASA rover prototype set to explore Greenland ice sheet
NASA's newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland. The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, will roam the frigid landscape collecting measurements to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet.

NASA, Dartmouth College

Public Release: 1-May-2013
PLOS announces Accelerating Science Award Program
The ASAP Program recognizes individuals who have used, applied or remixed scientific research -- published through Open Access -- to make a difference in science, medicine, business, technology or society as a whole. We hope to inspire greater support for Open Access through these stories.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
Archimedes collaborates with HHS and CMS to provide unprecedented access to health data
Archimedes will collaborate with the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide unprecedented access to synthetic CMS claims data. The collaborative efforts will use the Archimedes' ARCHeS Simulation and Analytics software suite to provide easy-to-use analytic support to analyze the Medicare Data Entrepreneurs' Synthetic Public Use File.

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
New auto index redefines which cars are really 'Made in America'
American University's Kogod School of Business announced today the release of a new Made in America Automotive Index that evaluates and ranks 253 car models based on country of origin and several factors not addressed by the American Automobile Labeling Act.

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
NASA's IceBridge finishing up successful Arctic campaign
With several weeks of science flights in the books, researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge are on the way to completing another successful campaign to maintain and expand a dataset that started with NASA's ICESat in 2003, and gather additional Arctic ice measurements that can improve computer models of sea and land ice.

NASA

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
NASA, University of Iowa ground measurement campaign to improve flood forecasting
Ground data now being collected in northeastern Iowa by the Iowa Flood Studies experiment will evaluate how well NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission satellite rainfall data can be used for flood forecasting.

NASA

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
Bowman Design Group is first US company awarded German FAMAB 'Sustainable Company' certification
Bowman Design Group is the first and only company in the United States to receive "Sustainable Company" certification from FAMAB, the German exhibition and events industry association. Third party verification established that the company met or exceeded sustainability goals. Company founder implemented a green business plan that reduced GHG by 65 percent in just two years.

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
European support for the first network of research and training in political ecology
A group of eleven organizations, coordinated by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona will train 18 researchers in Political Ecology over the next three years, within the framework of the European project ENTITLE. The initiative aims to create an international network of expertise in the field and to build a stable collaboration on doctoral studies that takes into account the multidisciplinary training needed in this area.

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
Saarbrücken computer scientists' anti-spyware app crosses 1 million downloads
Applications on smartphones and tablets are frequently doing more than they appear to. Unnoticed by their owner, these apps reveal his current location, or spy on contact details. To address this issue, Saarland University computer scientists developed an anti-spyware app. As of today, the app has been downloaded more than a million times. The app has now been enhanced so that it no longer accesses the program code of the supervised app.

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013

Subterranean Biology
A big step forward: Subterranean Biology journal moves to advanced open access publishing
Subterranean Biology takes up a new electronic peer reviewed format, joining the family of the advanced open access journals of Pensoft Publishers. The move brings a number of benefits, among which faster and intensified publication, export of data to external databases, archiving and dissemination and PR services.

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
Happiness: There's an app for that
The day of the Boston Marathon was the saddest day in nearly 5 years of observations by a team of scientists from the University of Vermont and The MITRE Corporation. Their on-line "hedonometer" -- an online sensing device -- shows a steep drop in global happiness associated with the bombings at the race. For the first time, results from the hedonometer are being made available to the public for free at a new website.

Public Release: 29-Apr-2013
Merck Animal Health announces Vetsulin
Merck Animal Health today announced that Vetsulin (porcine insulin zinc suspension), the only FDA-approved insulin for use in both dogs and cats is now available to veterinarians throughout the United States.

Public Release: 29-Apr-2013
OGI's investment in cytognomix contributes to the Shannon Human Splicing Pipeline's success
Ontario Genomics Institute congratulates Cytognomix on the success of the Shannon Human Splicing Pipeline, which was recently purchased by the National Cancer Institute in the US. In 2009, OGI invested in Cytognomix through its Pre-commercialization Business Development Fund.

Public Release: 29-Apr-2013
Power of cloud computing harnessed by Imperial collaboration
Realizing the potential of cloud computing for businesses will be the focus of research carried out by a European consortium, led by researchers from Imperial College London.

Public Release: 29-Apr-2013
SAGE to publish Canada's pre-eminent International Journal
SAGE has begun a partnership with the Canadian International Council and the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History to publish Canada's pre-eminent journal of global policy analysis, International Journal. This long-standing journal publishes brief, policy-relevant articles alongside peer-reviewed scholarly assessments of interest to foreign policy makers, analysts and academics around the world.

Public Release: 26-Apr-2013
Changing cellulose-forming process may tap plants' biofuel potential
Changing the way a plant forms cellulose may lead to more efficient, less expensive biofuel production, according to Penn State engineers.

US Department of Energy

Public Release: 25-Apr-2013

Violence and Gender
Violence and Gender Journal launching fall 2013
Delving into controversial and unsettling subjects such as the gender basis of violence, the new refereed journal Violence and Gender, launching in fall 2013, will explore the difficult issues that are vital to threat assessment and prevention of the epidemic of violence.

Public Release: 25-Apr-2013

IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium 2013
Lasers bring new urgency to electric power research
In the wake of the recent announcement that laser weapons will be put on US Navy ships, the need for reliable, high-voltage shipboard power has become a matter of national security, officials said at this week's Electric Ship Technologies Symposium outside Washington, DC. The Office of Naval Research-sponsored event featured some of the world's top scientists and engineers in power systems, who agree that a new era in electric power is within sight.

Office of Naval Research


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